- GitHub users get tired of how much they are forced to use copilot
- Two of the most popular discussions this year was about this
- Microsoft says github copilot -users grow in number
Despite the generative AI’s fortress in the developer community, where it has been shown to increase productivity and increase output (albeit at the expense of quality, per more reports), many GitHub users actively want to avoid it.
Registered Found that among the most popular GitHub discussions in the past year, two of the blockage of copilot were from generating questions/pull requests and an inability to disable copilot code reviews -of which none of them are resolved.
Users are apparently unhappy with GitHub Copilot’s intrusive, including how it trains on user code without consent.
Github -users actually won’t have copilot
A discussion writer, Andi McClure, has repeatedly filed requests to remove or block copilot functions in GitHub and VS code, but has so far not been successful. McClure notes that social support against copilot has grown in the last six months.
Despite this, the Microsoft-owned platform with the intention of pushing more and more Genai features on users. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently revealed that Copilot now has 20 million users who noticed a 75% quarterly increase in business.
Nadella also noticed Microsoft’s “Family of Copilot apps has surpassed 100 million active users.” Ni in 10 Fortune 100 -Companies are said to be GitHub Copilot users, but developers do not appear to be too enthusiastic.
Developers are concerned about AI-generated “slop” that requires strong review, its use of copyrighted code without attribution, its accuracy and correctness and also the ethics of its effects of society.
“Although Microsoft has forced the copilot ‘asks’ to more and more places in the interface for a while, they once hit a bending point where mass number of people do not want to ignore it anymore where they could shrug their shoulders and ignore it or find off -Switch,” McClure told McClure to McClure Registered.
